Combine butter and brown sugar in saucepan; bring to boil. Cook and stir one minute or until slightly thickened. Cool about five minutes. Add milk and beat smooth. Add enough powdered sugar to create spreadable consistency.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars

Ingredients

For batter:

• 1 box angel food cake mix

• 15 oz. can pumpkin

• 3/4 cup water

• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

For cream cheese filling:

• 8 oz. package cream cheese

• 1 egg

• 3 tablespoons sugar

• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a 9-by-13 pan sprayed with cooking spray, add half of the pumpkin cake batter, then smooth with a rubber spatula. Drizzle half of the cream cheese mixture over the top and take a small spatula to smooth it over the top. Add remaining cake batter followed by dollops of the remaining cream cheese mixture. Take a butter knife and run it back and forth over the top to create a swirled effect. Bake for 30 minutes. After cooled, cut into bars and serve.

Pumpkin Squares with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

For the cake batter:

• 2 cups flour

• 2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• 1/2 teaspoon cloves

• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

• 1/2 teaspoon ginger

• 1/2 teaspoon allspice

• 4 eggs

• 2 cups pumpkin

• 1 cup vegetable oil

• 2 cups sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix eggs, pumpkin, oil and sugar and set aside. Mix dry ingredients and add pumpkin mixture until combined. Pour into greased 13-by-15 pan, such as a cookie sheet with raised edges. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes. Frost when cooled. Garnish with walnuts if you like.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

• 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened

• 1 1/2 sticks butter, softened

• 1 tablespoon vanilla

• 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Combine cream cheese and butter on low speed of mixer until smooth. Add vanilla and vanilla and mix until combined.

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